Images from A Domestic Cook Book : Containing Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (1866)

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Images from A Domestic Cook Book: Containing Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (1866) Malinda Russell (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 121] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 122] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 123] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 124] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 125] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 126] Malinda Russell malinda russell, a cook, caterer, and cookbook author, was born and raised in Washington and Green Counties in eastern Tennessee. Her mother was born free after her grandmother was set free from slavery. In 1866, Russell published A Domestic Cook Book: Containing Useful Receipts for the Kitchen, which scholars recognize as the first African American cookbook. The book was reissued in a facsimile edition by the University of Michigan’s Longone Center for American Culinary Research in 2007. Copyright © 2014 The University of North Carolina Wilmington